Insurance-linked investments

Expanding use of third-party capital, reinsurance sidecars and partnerships with insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors is opening up additional sources of capital for managing general agents (MGA’s), which broker Gallagher Re says helped replace capacity from major reinsurers that have reduced their participation in the MGA marketplace.

The overall yield of the catastrophe bond market rose slightly to 10.93% by May 30th 2025, as seasonal spread widening now nears its end and a returning trend of rising prices is anticipated, according to Plenum Investments.

The government of Hong Kong is weighing additional incentives to attract more catastrophe bond issuers and investors, following its second annual insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference aimed at promoting the city as a global hub for alternative risk transfer, according to a recent article from South China Morning Post.

Tangency Capital Ltd., an investment manager in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space with a focus on reinsurance quota share instruments, has hired former Twelve Securis capital raising and investor relations specialist Alison Wallis as its new Investor Relations Manager.

MultiStrat, the specialist underwriter, reinsurance investment facilitator and casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) company, has hired former Securis investor relations employee Weston Tompkins as its new Executive Director of Capital Markets.

The first ever insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance in Brazil has been completed today, as local reinsurance firm IRB (Re) sponsored the issuance of a R$33.7 million deal to securitize surety bond risks, using its Andrina Special Purpose Insurance Entity (SSPE).

According to Howden Re, the reinsurance broking arm of Howden, risk-adjusted property catastrophe reinsurance rates-on-line fell in a range from flat to down 20% at the June 1st renewals, with ILS capacity said to be adding flexibility and competitive tension in top-layers.

The GAM Investments operated Star Cat Bond Fund UCITS strategy saw its catastrophe bond assets under management rise at the latest reporting of net asset values, halting a decline that began after ending its long relationship with the fund’s previous portfolio manager, Fermat Capital Management.

Since launching its Risk Exchange platform in 2023, Accelerant Holdings has positioned itself as a conduit between institutional capital and specialty insurance risk, offering what CEO Jeff Radke describes as one of the few opportunities for investors to gain “a fair slice of the whole book of business.”

The ILS Advisers Fund Index, which tracks the performance of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund sector, has turned positive for the year after April on the back of another strong month of private ILS fund returns.